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CVE-2016-4448

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Date: June 9, 2016

Format string vulnerability in libxml2 before 2.9.4 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vectors.

Language: C

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (32)

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00001.html

Url: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=502f6a6d08b08c04b3ddfb1cd21b2f699c1b7f5b

Url: http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

Url: http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.404722

Url: https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10170

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1292

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4448

Url: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=4472c3a5a5b516aaf59b89be602fbce52756c3e9

Url: https://support.apple.com/HT206899

Url: https://support.apple.com/HT206905

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

Url: https://support.apple.com/HT206904

Url: https://support.apple.com/HT206903

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00003.html

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1338700

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90856

Url: https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05194709

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-4448

Url: https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00000.html

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

Url: https://support.apple.com/HT206902

Url: https://support.apple.com/HT206901

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4448

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/25/2

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00002.html

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00005.html

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4448

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-4448

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

CWE-134

Insufficient Information

NVD-CWE-noinfo

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	10.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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